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Ableton Live tips: This set of videos, via Bjorn Vayner, shows “features in Live you may have overlooked or forgotten about.”

Part 1 looks at ways to resize multiple tracks in the Session View and how you can continue a stopped Session from where you left off.

Part 2 looks at how you can change the tempo and/or time signature by triggering a scene, how you can expand the Mixer View and how to capture and insert a scene.

Part 3 looks at how to make custom names for notes or ranges of notes appear in the MIDI editor.
The second trick shows a quick way to double the output of your computer keyboard.

Ableton has announced Ableton Live Intro – their new entry-level version of Ableton Live.

Live Intro has the same basic features as Ableton Live at a lower price and comes with 7 GB of Sampled Instruments, Drum Loops, Beats and Breaks, 200 Audio and MIDI Racks and Effects and 500 Instruments and Drum Kits from the Ableton Live Suite library.

So you’re probably wondering what the differences are between Ableton Live Intro and Ableton Live.

The biggest differences are:

• Live Intro is limited to 2 stereo inputs and outputs
• It’s limited to 8 Ableton instruments per project
• Live Intro doesn’t include the Looper or the Vocoder
• Live Intro is limited to 4 VST/AU instruments and effects per project
• Live Intro is limited to 8 scenes per project
• Live Intro doesn’t support External Instrument and Audio Effect devices
• No video import/export

Full details on the differences are available in chart format at the Ableton site.

Apple released Logic Pro v9.0.2.

This update improves overall stability and provides numerous fixes and enhancements. Issues addressed include:

• Flex Markers can align & snap to MIDI notes
• Performing a punch-in recording with Replace Mode now behaves correctly
• The I/O plug-in adds an option for latency measurement
• TDM plug-ins now behave as expected. (Only affects users with Pro Tools HD audio hardware.)

The update is recommended for all users of Logic Pro 9.

Ready to make some sick beats and stuttered vocals with Cakewalk Sonar 8.5?

You’d better check out this video, first…..

via Cakewalk

Sonic State takes a look at Apple’s Logic Pro 9. In the review, SS’s Nick Batt focuses on new features, like Flex Time, Edit Groups, Convert to Sample Track, Bounce in Place and Quick Swipe Comping and Import.

He summarizes his thoughts on the upgrade at the Sonic State site.

Are you using Logic Pro 9? If so, leave a comment with your thoughts on it.